Henry Paid about £499 for Push 2. And it isn’t that great.
Oh yeah agree. For clip launching I prefer my original apc40. I do like doodling melodies with the pads, but everything else I could do before. Honestly I barely use either at the moment.
No way am I arranging or mixing using a stand alone box. I need a bigger screen not a smaller one.
Still happily on live 10.
Snagged Mixbox for $29. A fun little fx rack for all kinds of duties that completes my fx rack collection next to Guitar Rig & Snapheap. Each having their own sound. Mixbox leaning towards “analog sounding”.
Eventide Quadravox for free at Plugin Boutique using code: 3sMZIDk3
Morty-C-137 Nice one, thanks.
I have experience in writing “club” tracks and ambient works.. but mainly the former could no longer interest me much the past two years or so to a point where I could just not be bothered to make one.
About a month or two ago I sat down to write a more “electronic” pop of the EDM persuasion (I guess.. I’ll leave the pigeon-holing up to others). I’m leaning more to the pop side for this because of the short sections and getting to the point quickly.
After it was done I let it rest for a month or so and listened back and decided there was nothing more I could do at this point in time to improve upon it (till the next track).
Side note: this is prob the worst demographic to pitch this stuff to though 
Free dynamic EQ from Melda. Usually £49 or something. I had been waiting for Track Spacer to drop in price, but this looks like it does something similar, when trying to deal with frequency masking issues etc
If you haven’t installed any of the Melda stuff before, the install is something like 600Mb. But you basically toggle off everything you don’t need so it’s not really bloatware.
https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/2-Effects/16-EQ/1102-MDynamicEq
Morty-C-137 I’ve been working on shorter 4/5mins style tracks, with perhaps a more traditional ‘songwriting’ sytle arrangement. All helpful to grow the arrangement muscle.
and ..
released the album I’ve been mentioning for a while. Still not got to 303s latest yet (but I will!).
Should probably mention that the arrangement of a couple of tracks were ‘mentored’ by Funk D’Void during lockdowns - tracks 4 and 7.
apyssjw Very much so yes.
apyssjw Nice one. Congrats the the LP.
Cheers both. Definitely think its my best / most interesting. Am laying the groundwork for the next one - no doubt coming 2025 at the earliest 
apyssjw how much did you pay for mastering, ball park?
mono-stereo https://begin.lhaudio.com/preise
I always use the more expensive analogue mastering and get a little discount for volume.
apyssjw That seems like good value. What are the main differences you notice after mastering?
mono-stereo I ask the mastering engineer to tell me whats he thinks needs correcting before they do their job. You hope you are getting better when there are less and less requested amends.
The your confident you can ask for a specific character for the master. There’s a little blurb on it here
https://begin.lhaudio.com/mastering
You do sometimes hear elements which you didn’t actively hear post master which you then want to either remove or drop in the mix.
Probably the most positive difference, for my ear, is a widening of the stereo spread.
